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. >>> new, kmart is calling its plus-size section "fabulously sized."on includes extended sizes of the store's popular labels like jacqueline smith and basic edition. kmart says it changed the name in response to women's input on social media. however, one woman on twitter questioned the move saying, does that mean skinny women aren't fabulously sized? wow. i just checked twitter with that hash tag, and wow, people are things to say about this. what do you think? does renaming the plus-size section end the stigma? does it help shoppers? is it necessary, unnecessary? this is going to be good. let us know what you think. we'd love to hear. our handles are on the bottom of the screen. >>> equifax is trying to make good with customers after the massive data breach that exposed millions of americans' personal information. landon dowdy is here with an update on that with the cnbc business news. good morning. >> reporter: hi, good morning. equifax is responding to backlash from consumers today. the company will waive the fee if you choose to freeze your credit

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. >>> some neighbors of a 15-year- old boy shot to death by police at a kmart are asking why police didn't try something first. the boy had a crowbar and was shot at his home on friday. peggy fox is live. peg, you've got new information about that shooting tonights. >> reporter: i sure do, leslie. we are nearby where the shooting happened. we left the neighborhood, because people there are very angry at the news media. when police shoot people, as journalists, it's our job to ask questions. was the shooting justified? was there a deadly threat? should police have done something different? here's what we now know. officers on alert with a frightening possibility approach a haymarket home sources tell wusa9 it was the 15-year-old himself who called 911, and said he had a knife, and was holding his mother hostage, and the teenager said he had a bomb strapped to him. >> he said there might be a bomb in the house. >> reporter: prince william county police say the teenager came out of the house, brandishing a crow bar, and aggressively approached the officers, refusing to obey any command. that'

. >> neil: you know, we look at i was kind of mentioning the example of kmart, when it was king and wal-mart came along and then amazon came to wal-mart, but there is always someone new. you always got to be on your seat for that but the toys r us thing? >> gerri: well look this is a company do you really want to bring your 5-year-old child to a toys r us? wouldn't you rather shop online and not face the trouble of getting them into one of these stores where they go crazy for five hours? it's just the reality if you're a mom. >> oh, my goodness last time i went there i tripped over two kids and you know the thing is they do want to make mem want to come there. >> but that's in the middle. it's beyond their control and by the way, where is news week today? >> neil: online, right? >> barely. >> neil: all right i want to thank charlie, gerri, nearly half of all americans plan to make a very big purchase by the end of the year. our guys have the stock to help you pay for it right after this. ... ... same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming

. >> kmart, do you mean? >> is that what you -- >> kmart versus tiffany!o shop at kmart before it became kmart >> they -- that was so long ago, it's hard to remember. >> i remember -- but these are the things people are discussing and look, we have a market that's filled with news, but people want to know really what's in -- it's incredible how little people know about this phone, given how far talk there is about who's in it, who's not in it. we've seen a lot of stocks fly with the idea that they will have tremendous economic content, whether it be skyworks or broadcom. whether it be nxpi david, talk about something, eliot partners is still agitating that qualcomm has to pay more where is that? >> you know, it's funny, i haven't checked in on that in a little bit, because they still need their approvals to come in, but that is still a key question mark for qualcomm, whether the 110 cash bid will hold the stock price traded well above that i haven't even looked at it, jim. >> it's at 112 and change. >> and as we pointed out, they need 80% to tender it's go

if they can get this right can just pufrn thmp them off the assembly line, sears kmart working on bodyly size a separate section they say women many women average between 5 to 16, 18 want diversity promising body positivesity they have new video on youtube premiered called i-10 video all about having body positive atmosphere for the ladies and teenagers as well. that is it. >> thank you nicole. >> moving to president trump, opening the door to you bipartisanship another bipartisan efforts if you will to build support for tax reform, joining me toaway in host of "varney & company" mr. stuart varney. >> i think push for bank deal on taxes is a great thing i am sure will disagree with many people in audience certainly people on your panel dagen, but there is a dinner tonight at the white house, three moderate democrats from -- three on your screen they have been invited to dinner with three moderate republicans obviously there is a bipartisan push to get something done on tax cuts then the president embarks on 13 state seven week tour, barnstorming for tax cuts will go to some states wher

shelves are empty pretty much at every grocery store, walmart, kmart, costco, target.unning out of critical supplies like cases of bottled water. pet food for the cat and dog, batteries for all the flashlights. resupply trucks are coming in again tomorrow morning but, you know, sometimes they don't show up in time. we saw a line of 100 people today at a walmart, just waiting to get a case of water. back to you in new york. connell: phil keating thanks, in miami-dade. let's go to the mayor of miami beach, phil levine who happens to join us on the telephone. mr. pair, phil was talking about when you might put the mandatory evacuation in effect. do you have timing on that? >> let me explain, the mandatory evacuation must come from the county government. connell: okay. >> city of miami beach can't do that. what i've done over last couple days, folks, time to leave. residents, visitors do not be caught waiting for mandatory evacuation because as phil reported you will have traffic going out on the causeways. it is very serious storm. it's a monster storm. we're not taking a

he wound up in this kmart parking lot. >> and i saw out of the corner of my eye, a black f-250 parked over there. >> reporter: parked right over here. >> right over there. >> reporter: fairhaven officer dave correia finds the black pickup truck, conrad's lifeless body behind the wheel. he's gone. his life over at age 18. >> i'd seen enough people that were gone to realize just by looking at him that he was gone, that there was nothing that anybody was going to be able to do for him. >> reporter: in the backseat, this portable water pump, powered by a gasoline engine. running that engine with the windows closed filled the truck with a lethal cloud of carbon monoxide gas, enough to kill anyone inside in 20 minutes flat. deadly as a loaded gun. >> it's immediately clear that it's a suicide. they contact his parents and lynn roy learns that her son has died. >> and i just grabbed my sister and hugged her as tight as i could, and she -- >> reporter: how did you even wrap your mind around that? >> you can't. there's no way. he was a kid. he was ours. he was our kid. >> reporter: conrad had

. >>> attention kmart shoppers. the store is doing away with plus size.hey're renaming the section to fabulously sized. it includes extended size. two other brands come in a wider range of sizes up to 4 and 5 x. many items will be mixed into the main women's section. >>> tennis star serena williams is a new mom. >> she wants to share her baby girl with all of her fans. meet alexis olympia. she and her husband the founder of reddit documented the pregnancy and compiled the photos in a diary. they want to share with the fans and let her daughter see it when she is old enough. >> so we're leaving the hospital after six days? it's been a long time. but we had a lot of complications. but look who we got? we got a baby girl. >> she is beautiful, and she will be called olympia. >> the baby is named after the father. the father's name is alexis. she was two months pregnant when she won the australian open in january. many people at that time didn't know she was pregnant. that's unbelievable. >> the name is a winner. olympia. sounds like a future tennis star maybe

when kmart was king and walmart was not. walmart was king and amazon was not.x. yahoo before google. print before broadcast. broadcast before cable. cable before the internet. industries that couldn't lose before encountering technologies they couldn't stop, technologies they couldn't see. perhaps too wrapped up in the in the self-satisfaction they couldn't control and vent -- until they lost control. i've seen it happen so often. not just to companies. the folks who thought ronald reagan could never be president until he was an hillary clinton could never lose until she did. my dad was right. it is humbling to lose but it's even more thinking you never will. i think history is defined not by the events we expect but by those we do not. maybe it's because we all live in the moment. we forget it's only a moment until the moment is gone and the success is gone. there's a second part to my dad's advice. merely saying you're going to have to work a lot harder. i think he figured my brains would only take me so far. leave it to a suddenly humble toy retailer to remi

portions donated ten grand and we put 5000 of the cajun navy and red cross and we went and bought kmartut. we loaded it up and we sent it out. people that were shopping, instead of maybe getting those goldfish, get something to send to houston. when i was saying it, they would say yeah, i will. greg: your like a reverse mugger. [laughter] >> do you want to donate? greg: they can't call the cops on you because you're not actually taking it for yourself. >> the cool thing about this is america. if you tell us there is a flood coming in six years will be like, cool, whatever. when it hits and when america gets punched in the mouth, we react to work together. when we have things that happen in this country no one says listen, all the white folks get on, you to stay there. this is a white helicopter. we don't have issues like that when the things really count. [applause] greg: one last point. i've noticed that harvey is quite a contrast from social networks like twitter which encourage -- twitter encourages antagonism because is not face-to-face or you can say awful things to complete strang

kmart was king and walmart was not. when walmart was king and amazon was not.again, blockbuster, before netflix. yahoo before google. print before broadcast. broadcast before cable. cable before the internet. well, it must have hit a nerve. i've been getting tons of e-mails and more since. beth in north carolina, one of the best things i heard. your dad sounds a lot like mine. weren't we the lucky ones. we were, beth, we were. narcoticsville, virginia, a precious piece for everyone who has an ego. diane in fort lauderdale, thank you for bringing a breath of fresh air and reason in all the murkiness. kip in brooklyn, all of you people preaching humility is like trump preaching chastity. doesn't go, fatso. that hurts my feelings, kip. but if you hate me so much, why are you watching? pat in greenwich, connecticut, simply brilliant. simply, my favorite viewer. daphne via g mail, the hon on log is one of the best i've heard. fred in georgia, i was a is to r us shareholder before it went public. neil's humble segment was one of the most honest things i've heard, ed,

kmart and all of those bring in first which is just saying ok we're going to have the market open again so that people by bus. which is it should be a back in first. and there isn't a bank so the only people with cash that they can buy stuff that shelters me at the shelters have been complaining that this is running out of food and they need food . you know immediately they need water immediately they need center city products immediately and that should be a ferrari certainly and they're reportedly some three hundred families in harm's way due to the significant damage of the dam in northwest puerto rico and hospitals around capacity do you think more resources will make it in time. we were pushing pushing we were working on what we were capable i don't have too much confidence in what the government is capable of they need to suspend the colonial laws that have a posh law the maritime law. by defining it's a law that says only the u.s. ships can dock in puerto rico they have to suspend that and they really have to get rid of that because they can't come from other countries now they h

and in the wake of hurricane katrina he led a group of healthcare volunteers to convert an abandoned kmartuilding into an emergency healthcare facility. he has also taught at the lsu medical school and is a former member of both louisiana state senate and the us house of representatives. senator cassidy attended the louisiana state university where both his undergraduate and medical degrees. secondly we will hear from our good friend and former colleague rick santorum. former senator santorum served in the us senate from 1995 until 2007, prior to which he also served in the us house of representatives from 1991 until 1995. senator santorum and his wife karen are also co-authors of the best-selling book. [inaudible] senator santorum received his bachelors degree from penn state university, his mba from the university of pittsburgh and his law degree from dickinson school of law. next will hear from mr. dennis smith. senior advisor for healthcare reform and medicaid at the arkansas department of human services and a visiting professor at the university of arkansas medical sciences culture co

remember kmart was all that before walmart. walmart was all that before amazon.n to add, live in the moment here. >>> all right is the white house completely giving up on tax cuts for the rich? former reagan budget director, author of "trump," david stockman. or will they give them up for everyone, because you don't think money is there, right? >> we should have a tax cut. it should be in payroll taxes for 160 million people, most of them out in flyover america who paying far more payroll taxes than income. this isn't 1981 anymore. we're not in kansas. the laffer curve has gone missing. what people don't know the income tax has morphed into a rich man's levy. last year, 800 billion of the 1.5 trillion collected came from 4%, let me tell you, 4% of the taxpayers. 6% of the 150 million taxpayers who filed with the irs paid 60% of the tax. the bottom 110 million taxpayers, 75%, paid less than 5% of their income in income tax. neil: close to half paid no income tax at all. >> close to half. so the point is, if you want to help flyover america with, which was trump el

sports i will straitdz swimsuit issues the magazine's best seller of all time got start up a halfiat kmarto forbes ceo of kathy ireland worldwide chairman emeritus chief brands strategist great to see misconstrue wonderful to be here. >> your story is so empowering you took your career where you wander to take ike -- you wante to take it you had courage to sustain what is the secret to continued growth at businesses. >> continued growth watching you a disruptureer of wall street watching navigating your career you know what that is but it is listening to the customer anticipating the changes, your previous guest talking about changes in retail sector and what that is really, anticipating serving people in way they want to be served. >> customer is number one always been for you. >> absolutely. >> dictates how you you come up with new products. >> listening to xhers customers serving them with company, we enjoyed great success pacific coast lighting our partner two decades renewed, 2023 long time relationships that we build. while listening to the customer and learning how they want to be s

kmart, radioshack. we talk about the retail ice age all the time.rs of the dems continue to grow. >> there are several things you can say. one is it's not over. a lot of storefronts are still struggling to compete with online shopping. secondly, what you saw with toys "r" us is to buy these companies, load them up with lots and lots of debt and a struggling retail environment isn't going to support that. the rationale has been don't worry about that. we've got the real estate assets to take care of. sears, but all of a sudden it's malls are going under, your real estate is questionable. the nike got to wonder if it's a d.c. policy issue. the number of store closings in those laid off is triple what it was last year at more than the financial collapse of 2008 and more than manufacturing layoffs combined. you've got to wonder if d.c. is paying attention to the minimum-wage jobs that were created at a pace that we haven't seen under obama if that's the way we want this country to go. >> as far as the retail, this is just creative destruction. not just

in the wake of hurricane katrina , he led a group of health care volunteers to convert an abandoned kmart building into an emergency health care facility. taught atssidy has the lsu medical school and is a former member of the louisiana state senate and the u.s. house of representatives. attended the you -- louisiana state university for his undergraduate and medical degrees. we will hear from our good former colleague senator rick santorum. he served in the u.s. senate from 1995 to 2007 prior to which he served in the u.s. house of 1991 totatives from 1995. senator santorum and his wife karen are co-authors of the best-selling book bella's gift. how one little girl transformed our 1991 family and inspired a nation. senator santorum received his matchless degree from penn state university, his mba from the university of pittsburgh, and his law degree from dickinson school of law. we will hear from mr. dennis smith, the senior adviser for medicaid and health care reform at the arkansas department of human services and a visiting professor at the university of arkansas medical sciences coll

one of the things that is very clear is that martin schulz the candidate for the social democrats kmart hard saying. they're not gonna play any role in this next government so again as you just mentioned that leaves the jamaica coalition as the one the. only viable option out which of course does bring instability i think the one thing that we have to talk about is a new player in town. which is of course the a debate right wing populist set goals marched into of the german parliament hadn't been there before and they came in with thirteen percent so that's a big change for. a politics in general and it's gonna be very interesting to see how all those parties adapt as they take a up. eighty plus seats in the next parliament okay and we were all listening to what the party heavyweights had to say and how long it was quite intense melinda just give us a couple of sort of patents where we're gonna. go before i give you a couple of clips from indeed well one aspect that was interesting we saw some very lively intensive interaction of the kind we didn't see all that much sense. during the el

one of the things that are very clear is that martin schultz the candidate for the social democrats kmart hard saying they're not going to play any role in this next government so again as you just mentioned that leaves the jamaica coalition as the one the only viable option which of course does bring instability i think the one thing that we have to talk about is a new player in town which is of course the if the right wing populist that marched into the german parliament haven't been there before and they came in with thirteen percent so that's a big change for politics in general and it's going to be very interesting to see how all those parties adapt as they take up eighty plus seats in the next parliament ok and we were all listening to what the party heavyweights had to say and it was quite intense melinda just give us a couple of sort of hints where we're going to go before i give you a couple of clips from the one aspect that was interesting we saw some very in life really intensive interaction of a kind we didn't see all that i said during the election campaign there is no i don'